Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-10-01
Military Misrepresentation.

Through some occult motive, most likely for the purpose of shielding some vulnerable military scapegrace from merited blame, or to build up more intimate and friendly relation with the Apache thieves and cutthroats, a report has reach General Miles and through him Major General Howard and the war De partment, that Sheriff Fryer of this county, with posse of forty men, pro- posed to arrest twenty seven San Carlos Indians. This false report, we naturally assume, went up through the usual chan nel and must therefore have originated at the San Carlos agency and by the acting agent, Captain Pierce. To show that Captain Pierce fully understood that the Indians wanted by Sheriff Fryer were beyond his jurisdiction and were in no manner amenable to other than the civil law, we herewith append his reply to Sheriff Fryer's application for assistance in arresting citizen Es-kim-In-zin and others for whom he held warrants, after having been resisted by them:
 SAN CARLOS, Sept, IT. JERE FRYER, Florence. sent your telegram to General Miles. Troops cannot be used as posse comitatus eA- cept by order of the President on appli- cation of the Governor of the Territory. This is the same as the Ute case, except these are self-supporting and of the res ervation.
 PIERCE, Act. Agt. It is proper to state here that Es-k kim in-zin has declared his intention to be- come citizen of the United States and, with several others, of his band, has taken up land under the laws of the United States, and so far as their individual position is concerned they are practically citizens of the United States; entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens and subject to all the requirements of the law. These are the people against whom the warrants were issued, and not the San Carlos Indians as the reports have evidently led the commanding officer of this department to believe
 Upon receipt of such misleading re- port General Howard at once telegraphed Governor Zulick as follows:
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20, 'S7. To Governor Zulick, Prescott:
 Gen. Miles report that Sheriff Fryer, Pinal County, proposes to arrest twenty. seven San Carlos Indians, and calls fol military assistance Please see to the matter before a stampede and terrible war IS inaug Irated. O. 0. HOWARD,
 Mai. Gen'l Com'd'g. Governor Zulick was prompt with a reply that does him decided honor and has the right ring to its tones:
 Prescott, Sept. 20, 1887. MAJ. GEN'L HOWARD.
 San Francisco, California.
 Have no knowledge of the matter save that which your dispatch gives. If the sheriff is armed withlegal process directed to arrest San Carlos Indians for crimel committed either on or off the reserva tion, he should be given all necessary assistance. Indian criminals are amend ble to law, the same. as other criminals and the mandates of the courts must bs obeyed. Resistance to such authority constitutes an additional crime.
 c MEYER ZULIcK,
 Governor"
 Even admitting that no misleading re ports of the affair had been furnished him, the rebuke given to General How ara by our level headed governor should be sufficient to draw the line between duty and subserviency plain enough for blind man to see. They are making mountain out of an artificial mole hil for some purpose not easily understoo' by those who want to see the law justl, and impartially administered. Tines Indian citizens will receive but a jus measure of the prescribed penalty fo their misdeeds and if they are innocen they have nothing to fear. What nor can the military, or the silliest sentiment Allst, askl A